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| LING 001-001 | Intro To Linguistics | Mark Yoffe Liberman | ANNS 110 | MW 12:00 PM-01:00 PM | A general introduction to the nature, history and use of human language, speech and writing. Topics include the biological basis of human language, and analogous systems in other creatures; relations to cognition, communication, and social organization; sounds, forms and meanings in the world's languages; the reconstruction of linguistic history and the family tree of languages; dialect variation and language standardization; language and gender; language learning by children and adults; the neurology of language and language disorders; the nature and history of writing systems. Intended for any undergraduate interested in language or its use, this course is also recommended as an introduction for students who plan to major in linguistics. | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. Natural Science & Math Sector Registration also required for Recitation (see below) |
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| LING 001-201 | Introduction To Linguistics | Eleftherios Paparounas | DRLB 2C8 | R 09:30 AM-10:30 AM | A general introduction to the nature, history and use of human language, speech and writing. Topics include the biological basis of human language, and analogous systems in other creatures; relations to cognition, communication, and social organization; sounds, forms and meanings in the world's languages; the reconstruction of linguistic history and the family tree of languages; dialect variation and language standardization; language and gender; language learning by children and adults; the neurology of language and language disorders; the nature and history of writing systems. Intended for any undergraduate interested in language or its use, this course is also recommended as an introduction for students who plan to major in linguistics. | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. Registration also required for Lecture (see below) |
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| LING 001-202 | Introduction To Linguistics | Eleftherios Paparounas | DRLB 2C8 | R 10:30 AM-11:30 AM | A general introduction to the nature, history and use of human language, speech and writing. Topics include the biological basis of human language, and analogous systems in other creatures; relations to cognition, communication, and social organization; sounds, forms and meanings in the world's languages; the reconstruction of linguistic history and the family tree of languages; dialect variation and language standardization; language and gender; language learning by children and adults; the neurology of language and language disorders; the nature and history of writing systems. Intended for any undergraduate interested in language or its use, this course is also recommended as an introduction for students who plan to major in linguistics. | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. Registration also required for Lecture (see below) |
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| LING 001-203 | Introduction To Linguistics | Milena Sereikaite | DRLB 3W2 | R 09:30 AM-10:30 AM | A general introduction to the nature, history and use of human language, speech and writing. Topics include the biological basis of human language, and analogous systems in other creatures; relations to cognition, communication, and social organization; sounds, forms and meanings in the world's languages; the reconstruction of linguistic history and the family tree of languages; dialect variation and language standardization; language and gender; language learning by children and adults; the neurology of language and language disorders; the nature and history of writing systems. Intended for any undergraduate interested in language or its use, this course is also recommended as an introduction for students who plan to major in linguistics. | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. Registration also required for Lecture (see below) |
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| LING 001-204 | Introduction To Linguistics | Milena Sereikaite | DRLB 3W2 | R 10:30 AM-11:30 AM | A general introduction to the nature, history and use of human language, speech and writing. Topics include the biological basis of human language, and analogous systems in other creatures; relations to cognition, communication, and social organization; sounds, forms and meanings in the world's languages; the reconstruction of linguistic history and the family tree of languages; dialect variation and language standardization; language and gender; language learning by children and adults; the neurology of language and language disorders; the nature and history of writing systems. Intended for any undergraduate interested in language or its use, this course is also recommended as an introduction for students who plan to major in linguistics. | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. Registration also required for Lecture (see below) |
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| LING 001-205 | Introduction To Linguistics | Yiran Chen | WILL 24 | F 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | A general introduction to the nature, history and use of human language, speech and writing. Topics include the biological basis of human language, and analogous systems in other creatures; relations to cognition, communication, and social organization; sounds, forms and meanings in the world's languages; the reconstruction of linguistic history and the family tree of languages; dialect variation and language standardization; language and gender; language learning by children and adults; the neurology of language and language disorders; the nature and history of writing systems. Intended for any undergraduate interested in language or its use, this course is also recommended as an introduction for students who plan to major in linguistics. | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. Registration also required for Lecture (see below) |
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| LING 001-206 | Introduction To Linguistics | Yiran Chen | WILL 24 | F 12:00 PM-01:00 PM | A general introduction to the nature, history and use of human language, speech and writing. Topics include the biological basis of human language, and analogous systems in other creatures; relations to cognition, communication, and social organization; sounds, forms and meanings in the world's languages; the reconstruction of linguistic history and the family tree of languages; dialect variation and language standardization; language and gender; language learning by children and adults; the neurology of language and language disorders; the nature and history of writing systems. Intended for any undergraduate interested in language or its use, this course is also recommended as an introduction for students who plan to major in linguistics. | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. Registration also required for Lecture (see below) |
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| LING 001-207 | Introduction To Linguistics | Luke J Adamson | WILL 23 | F 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | A general introduction to the nature, history and use of human language, speech and writing. Topics include the biological basis of human language, and analogous systems in other creatures; relations to cognition, communication, and social organization; sounds, forms and meanings in the world's languages; the reconstruction of linguistic history and the family tree of languages; dialect variation and language standardization; language and gender; language learning by children and adults; the neurology of language and language disorders; the nature and history of writing systems. Intended for any undergraduate interested in language or its use, this course is also recommended as an introduction for students who plan to major in linguistics. | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. Registration also required for Lecture (see below) |
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| LING 001-208 | Introduction To Linguistics | Luke J Adamson | WILL 23 | F 12:00 PM-01:00 PM | A general introduction to the nature, history and use of human language, speech and writing. Topics include the biological basis of human language, and analogous systems in other creatures; relations to cognition, communication, and social organization; sounds, forms and meanings in the world's languages; the reconstruction of linguistic history and the family tree of languages; dialect variation and language standardization; language and gender; language learning by children and adults; the neurology of language and language disorders; the nature and history of writing systems. Intended for any undergraduate interested in language or its use, this course is also recommended as an introduction for students who plan to major in linguistics. | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. Registration also required for Lecture (see below) |
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| LING 055-301 | Digital Science and Scholarship: Exploring Speech and Language | Mark Yoffe Liberman | Today, research of all kinds is being extended, supplemented or replaced by computational analysis and modeling. This is happening in every field from archeology to zoology, in the humanities as well as in the natural and social sciences. And often, the phenomena of interest are viewed through the lens of language in digital form. This is directly true in literature, history, medicine, law, media studies, political science, sociology, and anthropology, among others. Related or analogous methods are used in studies of animal communication, in the analysis of musical scores or recordings, and so on. In this seminar, we will learn about research at Penn and elsewhere based on a wide variety of digital language materials, including the texts of novels; poetry readings; student writing; political speeches; courtroom arguments; recordings of musical performances; musical scores; cuneiform tablets; clinical interviews and neurocognitive tests; legal contracts; twitter and facebook; language learning; and even birdsong. And we will explore the foundational skills and methods that support research across all of these apparently diverse domains. We'll learn that the techniques used to analyze clinical interviews can be the same as those used to analyze poetry readings; insight into political speeches may come from the same methods used to analyze novels. Students with all backgrounds and interests are welcome. Priority in enrollment will be given to students in the Digital Humanities Program in Riepe College House, and the Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program in Ware College House. | Formal Reasoning Course | Course is available to Freshmen. Freshman Seminar For Freshmen Only |
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| LING 071-680 | American Sign Language I | Melanie Drolsbaugh | WILL 319 | TR 12:00 PM-01:30 PM | Introduction to American Sign Language ( ASL ). Introduces ASL in a contextualized and conversational manner. Course includes receptive and expressive readiness activities, sign vocabulary and grammar, and an introduction to important topics and people within Deaf communities and Deaf culture. | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. | |||||
| LING 071-681 | American Sign Language I | Kaitlyn Parenti | WILL 319 | TR 06:00 PM-07:30 PM | Introduction to American Sign Language ( ASL ). Introduces ASL in a contextualized and conversational manner. Course includes receptive and expressive readiness activities, sign vocabulary and grammar, and an introduction to important topics and people within Deaf communities and Deaf culture. | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. | |||||
| LING 071-682 | American Sign Language I | Melanie Drolsbaugh | WILL 319 | TR 01:30 PM-03:00 PM | Introduction to American Sign Language ( ASL ). Introduces ASL in a contextualized and conversational manner. Course includes receptive and expressive readiness activities, sign vocabulary and grammar, and an introduction to important topics and people within Deaf communities and Deaf culture. | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. | |||||
| LING 071-683 | American Sign Language I | Jennifer Kay Strunk | WILL 202 | MW 05:00 PM-06:30 PM | Introduction to American Sign Language ( ASL ). Introduces ASL in a contextualized and conversational manner. Course includes receptive and expressive readiness activities, sign vocabulary and grammar, and an introduction to important topics and people within Deaf communities and Deaf culture. | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. | |||||
| LING 071-684 | American Sign Language I | Melanie Drolsbaugh | WILL 29 | MW 02:00 PM-03:30 PM | Introduction to American Sign Language ( ASL ). Introduces ASL in a contextualized and conversational manner. Course includes receptive and expressive readiness activities, sign vocabulary and grammar, and an introduction to important topics and people within Deaf communities and Deaf culture. | ||||||
| LING 072-680 | Amer Sign Language II | Kaitlyn Parenti | TR 04:30 PM-06:00 PM | Increased communication skill in American Sign Language (ASL). Expressive and receptive abilities are expanded upon via a contextualized and conversational manner Important topics to Deaf communities and Deaf culture are continued within online and in-class discussion. | Penn Language Center Permission Needed Prior Language Experience Required |
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| LING 072-681 | Amer Sign Language II | Sarah Ruth | WILL 205 | MW 05:00 PM-06:30 PM | Increased communication skill in American Sign Language (ASL). Expressive and receptive abilities are expanded upon via a contextualized and conversational manner Important topics to Deaf communities and Deaf culture are continued within online and in-class discussion. | Penn Language Center Permission Needed Prior Language Experience Required |
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| LING 073-680 | Amer Sign Language III | Joshua Beckman | WILL 305 | MW 05:00 PM-06:30 PM | American Sign Language (ASL) at the Intermediate I level. Expressive and receptive abilities are expanded upon via a contextualized and conversational manner, including, but not limited to, narrative production. Important topics to Deaf communities and Deaf culture are continued within online and in-class discussion. | Penn Language Center Permission Needed Prior Language Experience Required |
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| LING 073-681 | Amer Sign Language III | Joshua Beckman | WILL 304 | MW 06:30 PM-08:00 PM | American Sign Language (ASL) at the Intermediate I level. Expressive and receptive abilities are expanded upon via a contextualized and conversational manner, including, but not limited to, narrative production. Important topics to Deaf communities and Deaf culture are continued within online and in-class discussion. | Penn Language Center Permission Needed Prior Language Experience Required |
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| LING 073-682 | Amer Sign Language III | Christy Hennessey | WILL 27 | TR 04:30 PM-06:00 PM | American Sign Language (ASL) at the Intermediate I level. Expressive and receptive abilities are expanded upon via a contextualized and conversational manner, including, but not limited to, narrative production. Important topics to Deaf communities and Deaf culture are continued within online and in-class discussion. | Penn Language Center Permission Needed Prior Language Experience Required |
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| LING 074-680 | Amer Sign Language IV | Christy Hennessey | WILL 27 | TR 06:00 PM-07:30 PM | American Sign Language (ASL) at the Intermediate II level. Expressive and receptive abilities are expanded upon via a contextualized and conversational manner, including, but not limited to, narrative production. Important topics to Deaf communities and Deaf culture are continued within online and in-class discussion. | Penn Language Center Permission Needed Prior Language Experience Required |
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| LING 075-680 | Amer Sign Language V | Jami N. Fisher | WILL 705 | TR 01:30 PM-03:00 PM | This is an advanced ASL course in which students expand their conversational and narrative range. While receptive readiness activities continue to be an important part of the class, the emphasis moves toward honing expressive sign skills through narrative presentation and ASL-only class discussions. Various aspects of Deaf culture and cultural behavior rules will be incorporated into the course. A large component of the course is a unit on Deaf history in which students read and discuss major events and famous deaf people via readings, film, class lectures and discussions, and other outside resources. | Penn Language Center Permission Needed Prior Language Experience Required |
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| LING 077-680 | Asl/Deaf Studies - Abcs | Jami N. Fisher | WILL 633 | MW 02:00 PM-03:30 PM | For this course, students will attend Pennsylvania School for the Deaf on a weekly basis where they will participate in and contribute to the school community via tutoring or other mutually agreeable activities. Students will also have formal class on a weekly basis with discussions and activities centering on reflection of community experiences through linguistic as well as cultural lenses. Additionally, drawing from the required Linguistics and other ASL/Deaf Studies coursework, students will develop an inquiry question and conduct preliminary community-based research to analyze sociolinguistic variations of ASL and Deaf cultural attitudes, behaviors, and norms. Ongoing reflections and discussions-formal and informal-on Deaf cultural/theoretical topics drawing from readings as well as community experiences will be integral to the course experience. LING 078, Topics in Deaf Culture and permission from the instructor, are required for this course. | Penn Language Center Permission Needed Prior Language Experience Required |
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| LING 081-680 | Beginning Irish Gaelic I | Roslyn Blyn-Ladrew | WILL 315 | MW 05:00 PM-07:00 PM | Irish Gaelic, spoken primarily on the west coast of Ireland, is rich in oral traditions, song, poetry and literature. Knowledge of this language provides a foundation to understanding Celtic folklore and linguistics and also enhances the study of Anglo-Irish literature and history. The first-year course will include reading, conversation, listening and speaking. | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. | |||||
| LING 083-680 | Inter. Irish Gaelic I | Roslyn Blyn-Ladrew | MW 07:00 PM-08:30 PM | Prior Language Experience Required | |||||||
| LING 104-001 | Language and the Brain | Kathryn Dolores Schuler Martin | CHEM 514 | TR 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | This course offers an introduction to the brain basis of language. Its primary goal is to introduce students to the study of the brain and language by combining basic concepts from linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. We will consider, through lectures and readings, a number of questions: What areas of the brain underlie language processing and acquisition? What are the fundamental functions of these brain areas and how do these functions overlap with other cognitive processes? How is language impacted when one of these areas is damaged? And what are the methods and approaches researchers use to examine these questions? This is an introductory course and no specific background is assumed or required. | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. | |||||
| LING 105-401 | Intro Cognitive Science | Karolina M Lempert Charles Yang |
TOWN 100 | TR 01:30 PM-03:00 PM | How do minds work? This course surveys a wide range of answers to this question from disciplines ranging from philosophy to neuroscience. The course devotes special attention to the use of simple computational and mathematical models. Topics include perception, learning, memory, decision making, emotion and consciousness. | PSYC207401, COGS001401, CIS140401 | Formal Reasoning Course | Registration also required for Recitation (see below) | |||
| LING 105-402 | Introduction To Cognitive Science | TOWN 305 | R 03:00 PM-04:00 PM | How do minds work? This course surveys a wide range of answers to this question from disciplines ranging from philosophy to neuroscience. The course devotes special attention to the use of simple computational and mathematical models. Topics include perception, learning, memory, decision making, emotion and consciousness. | COGS001402, PSYC207402, CIS140402 | Formal Reasoning Course | Registration also required for Lecture (see below) | ||||
| LING 105-403 | Introduction To Cognitive Science | DRLB 3C2 | R 03:00 PM-04:00 PM | How do minds work? This course surveys a wide range of answers to this question from disciplines ranging from philosophy to neuroscience. The course devotes special attention to the use of simple computational and mathematical models. Topics include perception, learning, memory, decision making, emotion and consciousness. | COGS001403, PSYC207403, CIS140403 | Formal Reasoning Course | Registration also required for Lecture (see below) | ||||
| LING 105-404 | Introduction To Cognitive Science | TOWN 305 | R 04:00 PM-05:00 PM | How do minds work? This course surveys a wide range of answers to this question from disciplines ranging from philosophy to neuroscience. The course devotes special attention to the use of simple computational and mathematical models. Topics include perception, learning, memory, decision making, emotion and consciousness. | COGS001404, PSYC207404, CIS140404 | Formal Reasoning Course | Registration also required for Lecture (see below) | ||||
| LING 105-405 | Introduction To Cognitive Science | TOWN 309 | R 04:00 PM-05:00 PM | How do minds work? This course surveys a wide range of answers to this question from disciplines ranging from philosophy to neuroscience. The course devotes special attention to the use of simple computational and mathematical models. Topics include perception, learning, memory, decision making, emotion and consciousness. | COGS001405, PSYC207405, CIS140405 | Formal Reasoning Course | Registration also required for Lecture (see below) | ||||
| LING 105-406 | Introduction To Cognitive Science | TOWN 307 | R 05:00 PM-06:00 PM | How do minds work? This course surveys a wide range of answers to this question from disciplines ranging from philosophy to neuroscience. The course devotes special attention to the use of simple computational and mathematical models. Topics include perception, learning, memory, decision making, emotion and consciousness. | COGS001406, PSYC207406, CIS140406 | Formal Reasoning Course | Registration also required for Lecture (see below) | ||||
| LING 105-407 | Introduction To Cognitive Science | TOWN 315 | R 06:00 PM-07:00 PM | How do minds work? This course surveys a wide range of answers to this question from disciplines ranging from philosophy to neuroscience. The course devotes special attention to the use of simple computational and mathematical models. Topics include perception, learning, memory, decision making, emotion and consciousness. | COGS001407, PSYC207407, CIS140407 | Formal Reasoning Course | Registration also required for Lecture (see below) | ||||
| LING 105-408 | Introduction To Cognitive Science | TOWN 305 | F 03:00 PM-04:00 PM | How do minds work? This course surveys a wide range of answers to this question from disciplines ranging from philosophy to neuroscience. The course devotes special attention to the use of simple computational and mathematical models. Topics include perception, learning, memory, decision making, emotion and consciousness. | COGS001408, PSYC207408, CIS140408 | Formal Reasoning Course | Registration also required for Lecture (see below) | ||||
| LING 105-409 | Introduction To Cognitive Science | TOWN 303 | F 03:00 PM-04:00 PM | How do minds work? This course surveys a wide range of answers to this question from disciplines ranging from philosophy to neuroscience. The course devotes special attention to the use of simple computational and mathematical models. Topics include perception, learning, memory, decision making, emotion and consciousness. | COGS001409, PSYC207409, CIS140409 | Formal Reasoning Course | Registration also required for Lecture (see below) | ||||
| LING 105-410 | Introduction To Cognitive Science | TOWN 307 | F 04:00 PM-05:00 PM | How do minds work? This course surveys a wide range of answers to this question from disciplines ranging from philosophy to neuroscience. The course devotes special attention to the use of simple computational and mathematical models. Topics include perception, learning, memory, decision making, emotion and consciousness. | COGS001410, PSYC207410, CIS140410 | Formal Reasoning Course | Registration also required for Lecture (see below) | ||||
| LING 105-411 | Introduction To Cognitive Science | TOWN 307 | F 05:00 PM-06:00 PM | How do minds work? This course surveys a wide range of answers to this question from disciplines ranging from philosophy to neuroscience. The course devotes special attention to the use of simple computational and mathematical models. Topics include perception, learning, memory, decision making, emotion and consciousness. | COGS001411, PSYC207411, CIS140411 | Formal Reasoning Course | Registration also required for Lecture (see below) | ||||
| LING 105-412 | Introduction To Cognitive Science | DRLB 2C8 | R 03:00 PM-04:00 PM | How do minds work? This course surveys a wide range of answers to this question from disciplines ranging from philosophy to neuroscience. The course devotes special attention to the use of simple computational and mathematical models. Topics include perception, learning, memory, decision making, emotion and consciousness. | COGS001412, PSYC207412, CIS140412 | Formal Reasoning Course | Registration also required for Lecture (see below) | ||||
| LING 115-001 | Writing Systems | Eugene Buckley | TOWN 311 | MW 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | The historical origin of writing in Sumer, Egypt, China, and Mesoamerica; the transmission of writing across languages and cultures, including the route from Phoenician to Greek to Etruscan to Latin to English; the development of individual writing systems over time; the traditional classification of written symbols (ideographic, logographic, syllabic, alphabetic); methods of decipherment; differences between spoken and written language; how linguistic structure influences writing, and is reflected by it; social and political aspects of writing; literacy and the acquisition of writing. | History & Tradition Sector | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. Registration also required for Recitation (see below) |
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| LING 115-201 | Writing Systems | Oliver Henry Booker Sayeed | DRLB 3C2 | F 10:00 AM-11:00 AM | The historical origin of writing in Sumer, Egypt, China, and Mesoamerica; the transmission of writing across languages and cultures, including the route from Phoenician to Greek to Etruscan to Latin to English; the development of individual writing systems over time; the traditional classification of written symbols (ideographic, logographic, syllabic, alphabetic); methods of decipherment; differences between spoken and written language; how linguistic structure influences writing, and is reflected by it; social and political aspects of writing; literacy and the acquisition of writing. | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. Registration also required for Lecture (see below) |
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| LING 115-202 | Writing Systems | Oliver Henry Booker Sayeed | DRLB 3C2 | F 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | The historical origin of writing in Sumer, Egypt, China, and Mesoamerica; the transmission of writing across languages and cultures, including the route from Phoenician to Greek to Etruscan to Latin to English; the development of individual writing systems over time; the traditional classification of written symbols (ideographic, logographic, syllabic, alphabetic); methods of decipherment; differences between spoken and written language; how linguistic structure influences writing, and is reflected by it; social and political aspects of writing; literacy and the acquisition of writing. | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. Registration also required for Lecture (see below) |
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| LING 120-001 | Intro To Speech Analysis | Jianjing Kuang | MCNB 395 | TR 01:30 PM-03:00 PM | This course focuses on experimental investigations of speech sounds. General contents include: the fundamentals of speech production and perception; speech analysis tools and techniques; and topics in phonetic studies. The course consists of integrated lectures and laboratory sessions in which students learn computer techniques for analyzing digital recordings. | College Quantitative Data Analysis Req. | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. | ||||
| LING 170-301 | Exp Approaches in Lang | Gareth Roberts | BENN 141 | MW 03:30 PM-05:00 PM | Controlled experiments are a key element of empirical research, and they play an increasingly important role in the study of language and communication. This course will be divided into two halves. In the first half, students will be introduced to the fundamentals of how to conduct an experiment, along with a basic introduction to statistical methods. The emphasis will be on understanding the basic logic of experimental design, but special lectures will focus on the application of particular methods to the study of language. In the second half, classes will become more like lab meetings as students develop their own experimental projects from the ground up. At the end of the semester they will write up these projects as papers. | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. | |||||
| LING 250-001 | Introduction To Syntax | Beatrice Santorini | COLL 314 | MW 02:00 PM-03:30 PM | This course is an introduction to current syntactic theory, covering the principles that govern phrase structure (the composition of phrases and sentences), movement (dependencies between syntactic constituents), and binding (the interpretation of different types of noun phrases). Although much of the evidence discussed in the class will come from English, evidence from other languages will also play an important role, in keeping with the comparative and universalist perspective of modern syntactic theory. | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. | |||||
| LING 270-001 | Language Acquisition | Charles Yang | BENN 231 | TR 12:00 PM-01:30 PM | An introduction to language acquisition in children and the development of related cognitive and perceptual systems. Topics include the nature of speech perception and the specialization to the native language; the structure and acquisition of words; children's phonology; the development of grammar; bilingualism and second language acquisition; language learning impairments; the biological basis of language acquisition; the role in language learning in language change. Intended for any undergraduate interested in the psychology and development of language. | Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen. | |||||
| LING 300-301 | Tutorial in Linguistics | Julie Legate | COLL 315A | TR 12:00 PM-01:30 PM | This tutorial allows students to deal in a concentrated manner with selected major topics in linguistics by means of extensive readings and research. Two topics are studied during the semester, exposing students to a range of sophisticated linguistic questions. | ||||||
| LING 304-401 | Neurolinguistics | Kathryn Dolores Schuler Martin | TR 01:30 PM-03:00 PM | This course is an upper level undergraduate/graduate seminar in neurolinguistics. We will explore language in the brain through readings and discussions. | LING504401 | Contact Dept Or Instructor For Classrm Info | |||||
| LING 411-301 | Old English | Donald A Ringe | MWF 12:00 PM-01:00 PM | The main purpose of this course is to teach students to read Old English ("Anglo-Saxon"), chiefly but not exclusively for research in linguistics. Grammar will be heavily emphasized; there will also be lectures on the immediate prehistory of the language, since the morphology of Old English was made unusually complex by interacting sound changes. In the first eight weeks we will work through Moore and Knott's "Elements of Grammar" and learn the grammar; the remainder of the term will be devoted to reading texts. | Contact Dept Or Instructor For Classrm Info | ||||||
| LING 420-301 | Structure of A Language | MW 03:30 PM-05:00 PM | |||||||||
| LING 495-001 | Games and Signals | Robin L. Clark | WILL 29 | TR 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | Game Theory has provided a new way of looking at linguistic meaning, particularly pragmatics (the use of language). This course will survey the use of Game Theory in linguistics as well as develop the techniques for studying signaling behavior. We will look at the formal foundations of signaling with particular attention paid to games of incomplete information (games where even which game is being played is uncertain). This will allow us to extend pragmatics beyond Gricean conversational maxims to areas like deception and polite signaling. | ||||||
| LING 504-401 | Neurolinguistics | Kathryn Dolores Schuler Martin | TR 01:30 PM-03:00 PM | This course is a graduate seminar in neurolinguistics. We will explore language in the brain through readings and discussion. | LING304401 | Undergraduates Need Permission Contact Dept Or Instructor For Classrm Info |
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| LING 510-001 | Intro Hist-Comp Ling | Donald A Ringe | MWF 01:00 PM-02:00 PM | Synchronic and diachronic systems. Analogic processes. Semantic change. Effects of contact. Internal reconstruction. Comparative method and reconstruction. | Undergraduates Need Permission Contact Dept Or Instructor For Classrm Info |
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| LING 520-001 | Phonetics I | Jianjing Kuang | MW 09:30 AM-11:00 AM | Speech: its linguistic transcription, its quantitative physical description, and its relationship to the categories and dimensions of language structure and use. The physical basis of speech: acoustics, vocal tract anatomy and physiology, hearing and speech perception, articulation and motor control. Phonetic variation and change. Prosody: stress, intonation, phrasing speech rate. Phonetic instrumentation, the design and interpretation of phonetic experiments, and the use of phonetic evidence in linguistic research, with emphasis on computer techniques. Introduction to speech signal processing. Speech technology: introduction to speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, speech coding. This course will emphasize the phonetics of natural speech, and its connections to issues in other areas of linguistics and cognitive science. | Undergraduates Need Permission Contact Dept Or Instructor For Classrm Info |
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| LING 530-001 | Phonology I | Rolf Noyer | WLNT 300C | TR 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | First half of a year-long introduction to the formal study of phonology. Basic concepts in articulatory phonetics; the distribution of sounds (phonemes and allophones); underlying and surface forms, and how to relate them using both ordered-rule and surface-constraint approaches. The survey of theoretical topics in this term includes distinctive features (context, organization, underspecification); the autosegmental representation of tone; and the theory of phonological domains and their interaction with morphological and syntactic constituency. Emphasizes hands-on analysis of a wide range of data. | Undergraduates Need Permission Contact Dept Or Instructor For Classrm Info |
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| LING 550-001 | Syntax I | Julie Legate | WLNT 300C | TR 01:30 PM-03:00 PM | A general introduction at the graduate level to the analysis of sentence structure. The approach taken is that of contemporary generative-transformational grammar. | Undergraduates Need Permission Contact Dept Or Instructor For Classrm Info |
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| LING 562-301 | Quan Analy Ling Variat | Meredith J Tamminga | WLNT 300C | TR 12:00 PM-01:30 PM | This course provides students with the opportunity to hone their statistical, computational, and organizational skillsets while conducting original linguistic research on data gathered in continuing fieldwork in the speech community. Topics include forced alignment and vowel extraction, auditory and automated variable coding, the application of linear and logistic regression, and techniques for effective data visualization. | Undergraduates Need Permission Contact Dept Or Instructor For Classrm Info |
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| LING 581-001 | Semantics II | Florian Schwarz | WLNT 300C | MW 02:00 PM-03:30 PM | The first part of the course expands the system from LING 580 to include intensional contexts. In particular, we discuss analyses of modals, attitude verbs, and conditionals, as well as the scope of noun phrases in modal environments. The second part of the course discusses a selection of topics from current work in semantics, such as the semantics of questions, tense and aspect, donkey anaphora, indefinites, genericity, degree constructions, events and situations, domain restriction, plurality and focus. | Undergraduates Need Permission | |||||
| LING 603-301 | Topics in Phonology | Rolf Noyer | WLNT 300C | M 03:30 PM-05:30 PM | Topics are chosen from such areas as featural representations; syllable theory; metrical structure; tonal phonology; prosodic morphology; interaction of phonology with syntax and morphology. | ||||||
| LING 607-301 | Topics in Psycholing | Topics in Psycholinguistics | |||||||||
| LING 630-301 | Seminar in Morphology | David Scott Embick | BENN 16 | W 02:00 PM-04:00 PM | Readings in modern morphological theory and evaluation of hypotheses in the light of synchronic and diachronic evidence from various languages. | Contact Dept Or Instructor For Classrm Info | |||||
| LING 650-301 | Topics in Natl Lang Synt | Anthony S Kroch | WLNT 300C | W 10:00 AM-12:00 PM | Detailed study of topics in syntax and semantics, e.g., pronominalization, negation, complementation. Topics vary from term to term. | ||||||
| LING 653-301 | Tpcs in Syn-Sem Intrface | WLNT 300C | M 10:00 AM-12:00 PM | Topics in the Syntax-Semantics Interface | |||||||
| LING 670-301 | Topics in Cult Evol Lang | Gareth Roberts | BENN 139 | M 10:00 AM-12:00 PM | Readings in the cultural evolution of language. This encompasses research on the contribution of processes of cultural change to the emergence of language in the human species, the emergence of new languages, and language change viewed as a cultural-evolutionary process. There will be an emphasis on research employing empirical methods, particularly experimentation. Otherwise focus varies from term to term. | Contact Dept Or Instructor For Classrm Info |
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